Colton boy turns 12 on 12-12-12

For his birthday celebration, Ralph hopes to do some skateboarding. In fact, skateboarding is something he'd like to do daily. It's his favorite thing.

"If money were no object," he says, "I'd like to skateboard."

A sixth-grader at Grant Elementary School in Colton, Ralph is in the GATE Program and considers math his favorite subject.

He likes fractions and decimals, and thinks the GATE program is "not too hard."

His dad, Ralph Medina III, says the family is planning to take Ralph out to dinner. The whole family plans to go - Ralph's mom, Cindy Medina, his sisters Rebecca, 16, and Julie, 14 - maybe a couple of aunts, and of course, Grandma Corn.